World Hunger and Morality

World Hunger and Morality

edited by

William Aiken and Hugh LaFollette

Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1995

Table of Contents

Introduction

LIFEBOAT ETHICS

Garrett Hardin
Lifeboat Earth: The Case Against Helping the Poor

William Aiken
The "Carrying Capacity" Equivocation

A RESPONSIBILITY TO AID

Peter Singer
Famine, Affluence, and Morality

John Arthur
Rights and the Duty to Bring Aid

Garrett Cullity
The Life-saving Analogy

Hugh LaFollette and Larry May
Suffer the Little Children

Onora O'Neill
Ending World Hunger

RIGHTS AND JUSTICE

Henry Shue
Solidarity among Strangers and the Right to Food

James Sterba
Global Justice

Xiarong Li
Making Sense of the Right to Food

James Nickel
A Human Rights Approach to Hunger

JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT

Amartya Sen
Goods and People

David Crocker
Hunger, Capability, and Development

Radhika Balakrishnan and Uma Narayan
Combining Justice with Development: Rethinking Rights andResponsibilities in the Context of World Hunger and Poverty

HUNGER AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Holmes Rolston III
Feeding People vrs. Saving Nature?

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